sup, post what you've read in 2016
Moby Dick
Agape Agapē
Why We Can't Wait
Manon Lescaut
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
Things Fall Apart
The Marquise of O + Michael Kohlhaas
Junky
The Pearl
King Lear (again)
The Way Through Doors
The Odyssey
Frankenstein
currently: Twelfth Night + Gargantua & Pantagruel
>>8104326
>>8104326
what's that flaubert book with the bird on it
>>8104326
Brownsville Stories
My Twisted World
The Way of Men
Crippled America
Gilgamesh
>>8104412
wew i should read more
add to this Crime and Punishment, Zizek's Jokes, Kafka's Aphorisms, and The Illiad.
>>8104428
How was Melancholy of Resistance? Ordered it yesterday, pretty high expectations because of Bela Tarr.
No Country for Old Men
Submission
The Plot Against America
Mao II
Howl
The Immoralist
Child of God
>>8104432
starts really strong but i got kinda bored it's funny throughout though and the last section owns would've liked paragraphs
>>8104409
Are you new to reading?
>>8104409
Is dead souls any good I'm thinking about picking it up
>>8104690
Yeah, it's great. Though you have to keep in mind that he intended it as a trilogy and only part 1 is complete. Part 2 is fragments and 3 wasn't written yet at time of his death. It's an incredibly funny blend of Homerus and Kafka.
>>8104690
Not him, but it ranks among my all time favourites. Check out his short stories first to gauge if it's for you. The Petersburg Tales, particularly The Overcoat, The Portrait and The Nose are all excellent. He's probably one of the GOAT short story writers.
I haven't read a single book this year :^(
The Story of a New Name(The Neapolitan Novels #2), Ferrante, Elena
Season of Migration to the North, Salih, Tayeb
My Brilliant Friend(The Neapolitan Novels, #1), Ferrante, Elena
The Power and the Glory, Greene, Graham
The Bridge on the Drina, Andrić, Ivo
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Huntington, Samuel P.
The Possibility of an Island, Houellebecq, Michel
The End of the Affair, Greene, Graham
Reasons of State, Carpentier, Alejo
Wizard of the Crow, Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa
The Kingdom of This World, Carpentier, Alejo
Memed, My Hawk(İnce Memed, #1), Kemal, Yaşar
The Buried Giant, Ishiguro, Kazuo
The Dwarf, Lagerkvist, Pär
The Battle for Egypt, Rashidi, Yasmine El
A Little Life, Yanagihara, Hanya*
My Ántonia, Cather, Willa
The Shadow of the Torturer(The Book of the New Sun #1), Wolfe, Gene
In a Free State, Naipaul, V.S.
No Longer Human, Dazai, Osamu
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, James, C.L.R.
Silence, Endō, Shūsaku
Typhoon, Conrad, Joseph
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness , Brady, Frank
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control, Marks, John D.
Disgrace, Coetzee, J.M.
The Bell Jar, Plath, Sylvia
The General in His Labyrinth, García Márquez, Gabriel
The Moor's Account, Lalami, Laila*
Soumission, Houellebecq, Michel
Teatro Grottesco, Ligotti, Thomas
The Fishermen, Obioma, Chigozie*
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, Hemming, John
>>8104428
>>8104409
>>8104349
>>8104326
Respect Lads
>>8104807
Nice - this guy reads.
What were your favorites among these?
>>8104810
Buried Giant, My Antonia, Neapolitan Novels, The Dwarf and Season of Migration to the North. Wizard of the Crow was funny. Black Jacobins and Soumission were pretty good.
Typhoon, and A Little Life were my least favorites, although I will say little life had a lot of feels.
Naipaul was the biggest letdown.
the last month or so
>>8104828
Did you like Kingdom of God is Within You? I thought it was profound and in the right spirit but ultimately dripped with naivete.
Also, have you considered what effect Tinder and fitness would have on your reading goals?
>>8104840
>Also, have you considered what effect Tinder and fitness would have on your reading goals?
Tinder is for degenerates.
>>8104860
>Tinder is for degenerates
Is sexuality in general?
Pic related
>>8104807
>Memed, My Hawk(İnce Memed, #1), Kemal, Yaşar
Interesting title.
>>8104861
yes
>>8104916
Ok, continue reading
>>8104828
>STEM Speedread autist
Would like to read a single analysis/reflection on a book you've read.
I'm slower this year due to a backpack in April
- Olavo de Carvalho's (Brazilian Philosopher) Symbolic Dialectics
- Julius Evola's Ride the Tiger
- Carl Schmitt's Political Theology
- St. John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul
- A Confederecy of Dunces
- Schopenhauer's The Art of Being Right (reread)
- The Fall
-René Guénon's The Reign of Quantity and Sign of The Times
- Demian
-The Invisible Cities
Currently reading:
- We
- Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões (Rebellion in
Backlands)
- Eric Voegelin's The New Science of Politics
>>8105061
Is "We" good so far, anon?
>>8104690
Gogol is very funny. Yeah, it's good.
>>8105063
"We" by Zamyatsin ya mean?
>>8105103
Yes
>>8105063
Not him but I love it
There are some fever dream style moments of prose, real interesting ideas, oh and also the first dystopian novel
>>8105061
lmao
>>8105142
If you like dystopias it's good
But I think "Brave New World' much better
>>8105063
I've read only a little more than 10%. The best thing I found is that the protagonist is not a nonconformist like in BNW or 1984. But the worse thing, is that the book is always saying about "in dah XX Century it was like..."
>>8105061
>St. John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul
Been meaning to get to it, how was it
>The Invisible Cities
Hated it
>Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões
Excellent book, Llosa did a fictionalized take on it in War at the End of the World
>>8104326
>>8105210
>Been meaning to get to it, how was it
Very good. Some fedoras should know that weaning doesn't mean abscence of God
>Hated it
Why? For me it is the best place to learn the difference between essence and accident.
>Excellent book, Llosa did a fictionalized take on it in War at the End of the World
Until the third expedition local police force and Brazilian army looked like Keystone Cops. Llosa's book is the next one to me.
>>8105326
>local police force and Brazilian army looked like Keystone Cops
It was an unintentionally funny book
As far as invisible cities, the games he was playing with time and imagination and infinite chance as well as the unspecific nature of the descriptions were just deeply unpalatable to me. Its something I would have liked when I was high in highschool
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
To Kill A Mockingbird
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Less Than Zero
Angels & Demons
>>8105389
>>8105389
>two books this year.
shit.
Pretty pathetic so far this year. I'm picking up the pace now though.
Swann's Way
The Leopard
How to Read and Why*
The Republic
American Gods
The Crying of Lot 49
Currently finishing up Bloom's book and just started Libra.
story of the eye
metamorphosis
the stranger
in the miso soup
the wasp factory
I want to read eden eden eden next, then blood meridian by cormac mccarthy. I have a lot more books lined up for me to read this year. I fucking wish I could get eden eden eden on paperback.
>>8104326
reading books doesn't make you smarter haha
>>8105450
You opened my eyes
The Stranger
Stoner
Tender Is the Night
Lord of the Flies
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Royal Game
The Captain of Köpenick
Mario and the Magician
A Moveable Feast
>>8104326
What Film Theory book is that?
Pic is too small on my phone
>>8105456
enough to comment
>The Walking Dead
>Audiobooks
>Slaughterhouse-Five
p-please be nice, /lit/.
I've obviously been on a PKD kick lately. I found Ubik kind of disappointing based on how much hype it gets.
I'm tackling Infinite Jest right now, not sure if I should read some shorter, easier books on the side or commit to it completely.
>>8105469
Everybody needs a little pulp now and then. No shame.
This is such an impressive thread. Keep me updated guys, I can't wait to see what you're reading next.
Slow year
>>8105611
How was Slouching Towards Bethlehem? I've had it on my backlog for some time.
>>8105389
These are also the only books I've ever read beside Hank the Cowdog and A Series of Unfortunate Events.
So I'm trying. Very slowly. For the first time in my life, I'm able to sit down and just read.
May 29 - J?? ?? Gaddis -- The Recognitions
May 30 - Jun 0? Foucault -- Madness and Civilization**
May 12 - May 18: Bellow -- Herzog
May 10 - May 28: Dickens -- Bleak House
Mar 07 - Mar 16: Reynolds -- The Sappho Companion**
Mar 01 - Mar 08: Highway -- Kiss of the Fur Queen***
Mar. 01 - Mar 06: Gambone -- Capturing the Revolution: The United States, Central America, and Nicaragua
Feb. 24 - Feb 29: Bemis -- The Latin American Policy of the United States
Feb. 18 - Feb. 21: Maurer & Yu -- The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
Feb. 15 - Feb. 20: McCullough -- The Path Between the Seas***
Feb. 02 - Feb. 15: Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Jan. 25 - Feb. 03: Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea*
Jan. 20 - Jan. 25: O'Brien -- At Swim-Two-Birds**
Jan. 15 - Feb. 02: Galeano -- Open Veins of Latin America*
Jan. 11 - Jan. 15: Munro -- The Love of a Good Woman
Jan. 09 - Jan. 16: Said -- Orientalism
Jan. 08 - Jan. 08: O'Connor -- Wise Blood***
Jan. 04 - Jan. 05: Memmi -- The Colonizer and the Colonized**
Dec. 31 - Jan. 07: Adichie -- Americanah
Dec. 25 - Jan. 06: Hegel -- The Phenomenology of Spirit
Dec. 21 - Jan. 04: Bolaño -- The Savage Detectives**
* = Would not recommend
** = Personally recommend
*** = Strongly recommend
>>8105469
>Hersenschimmen
How did you like it?
I don't read.
Can someone recommend me books with a dystopian setting?
>>8105652
Naked Lunch
Just finished the first book I've read of my own will : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Enjoyed it thoroughly, nice and relatable, with some thought provoking bits.
Gonna read the crying of lot 49 next.
>>8105616
Iz good. She writes clause-rich sentences that I believe the folks here jerk off to as 'gud prose' and she has an astute eye to the happenings of West and Middle America, creating characters and dialogue out of journalistic reportage. Kind of too hysterical, doomsaying tone.
Her fiction on the other hand, Play It As It Lays, is crap.
>>8105636
Hey man, good for you. Be proud of the fact that you've read more than half of the e/lit/ists here can claim to.
Word of advice: once you're comfortable in your reading routine, pick up those books that you were supposed to read in high school/freshman uni: Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, maybe some light Shakespeare, and so on. To Kill a Mockingbird and Less Than Zero are good starts. Once you've got an elementary handle on how to digest literary texts, you can move onto more substantial works and creating your own aesthetic vocabulary.
>>8105652
1984 by George Orwell might be what you're looking for.
>>8105676
That's the only book I've read, hence why I posted it.
>>8105667
>pick up those books that you were supposed to read in high school/freshman uni
And that's exactly my plan. I already had TKAM so I read that. And since I always wanted to read past the 3rd Harry Potter book, I've been throwing those in. I keep finding Dan Brown books at the thrift store so that's how that happened. Unashamed that I'm enjoying it all. I also have 1984 so I'll probably read that next.
>>8105646
I enjoyed reading it at the time, and it was quite interesting--touching, even--to see the character become increasingly disconnected from himself and the world, but thinking about it now, it didn't really leave any lasting impression.
>>8105681
The possibility of an Island by Hollebecq or gulag archipelago is something different than Brave New World or
>>8105665
Crying is a p crappy tale
You'd do better to read Dubliners
>>8105511
Would you recommend Valis to someone who has only read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I always get the sense it should be read when you're already more familiar with his work.
Also curious if that David Byrne book is any good.
>>8105690
There's nothing wrong with enjoying pleb literature. Mass-produced culture is designed to be readily enjoyable by as wide an audience as possible, and you have to be quite far to either side of the bell-curve to outright hate it instinctively, although you'll find that the more you read in terms of quantity, quality, and variety, the farther you'll be pushed to the right of that curve.
Here's mine, from most recent on back to the first of January (with Trumpets of Jericho).
Most are kid books.
>>8105691
More or less the way I feel about it. I used to rave about it to everyone, but it isn't that much more than a pretty touching but straightforward story.
>>8105788
i like you, you can stay
>>8105788
Do you write kid books
Also how are those "a global history" food books?
>>8105788
>Have two girls
>read every night and afternoon to them
If I had your standards id probably be up to 200 on the year
Blood Oranges, The Lime Twig, & Lunar Landscapes - John Hawkes
Dune - Frank Herbert
Street of Crocodiles
The Opposing Shore
Various Borges stories
>>8105788
Oh, and a few that I can't add because they haven't been released yet.
Right now I'm reading Understanding Japanese Woodblock-printed Illustrated Books and slogging through Jack Hillier's enormous The Art of the Japanese Book.
>>8105864
No, I'm just building up a children's books collection (kid is not born yet) and have been reading them as I go.
I love the Edible history ones, though they're not really that good of books. I mostly use them for having recipes by main ingredient/type around; they're about as quick to read as a long Wiki article. But sometimes they aren't so accurate. I still can't get over the Beer volume, which made a reference to Benjamin Franklin being president after Abraham Lincoln. And they're often riddled with other errors too. I've sent Reaktion a few emails asking if they happen to need a proofreader, but to no response.
>>8105867
Are you the single dad anon? What have you been reading to them?
>>8104807
Hey Bill, finish Book of the New Sun, it's great
>>8104326
Napolean Of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics by Edward Feser
The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Fathers by Pope Benedict XVI
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
This Immortal by Roger Zelazny
In Green's Jungles by Gene Wolfe
Many Religions One Covenant by Pope Benedict XVI
The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc
The Phoenix Exultant by John C. Wright
Locke by Edward Feser
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
Kiku's Prayer by Shūsaku Endō
The Golden Age by John C. Wright
An Essay On the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Newman
Cratylus by Plato
Philosophy of Mind by Edward Feser
On Blue's Waters by Gene Wolfe
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
The Jews by Hilaire Belloc
Crito by Plato
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
Silence by Shūsaku Endō
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
The Spiritual Doctrine Of Father Louis Lallemant
The Categories by Aristotle
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Ethics by Peter Kreeft
The Aeneid by Virgil
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny
Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Utopia by Thomas More
The Short Stories of G.K. Chesterton by G.K. Chesterton
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas by Peter Kreeft
The Platonic Tradition by Peter Kreeft
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
>>8105611
>humble bragging
Look inside yourself and realise that you're a pathetic narcissist.
>>8105639
Nice, I read The Recognitions around this time last year and still can't get it out of my head. Should I tackle Savage Detectives? I've read 2666, and while I liked it well enough it didn't wow me.
>>8104326
Against the Day
Bleeding Edge
(last two Pinecones I has left)
House of Leaves
The Master and Margarita
If on a winter's night a traveler
Invisible Cities
The Name of the Rose
The Tartar Steppe
Borges Collected Fictions (currently)
>All these skim-readers
>All these non-thinkers
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - Rilke
Lolita - Nabokov
Anthem - Rand
The Sun Also Rises - Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Great Expectations - Dickens
Brave New World - Huxley
The Remains of the Day - Ishiguro
Ubik - Dick
Night - Wiesel
The Optimist's Daughter - Welty
The Fountainhead - Rand
Waiting for Godot - Beckett
The Pearl - Steinbeck
The Bell Jar - Plath
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Carver
Wuthering Heights - E. Brontë
If on a winter's night a traveler - Calvino
The Screwtape Letters - Lewis
Plainsong - Haruf
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - A. Brontë
Norwegian Wood - Murakami
The Unvanquished - Faulkner
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
Mason & Dixon - Pynchon
Geek Love - Dunn
The Collected Poems - Plath
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Smith
Out of the Silent Planet - Lewis
Fates and Furies - Groff
Perelandra - Lewis
For the Time Being - Dillard
That Hideous Strength - Lewis
The Ladies of the Corridor - Parker, D'Usseau
Spiritual Writings - Kierkegaard
Brooklyn - Tóibín
The Rachel Papers - Amis
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
The Complete Poems - Sexton
The Children - Wharton
All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy
The Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
Interior Castle - Teresa of Ávila
Rules of Civility - Towles
No one belongs here more than you. - July
The Brief History of the Dead - Brockmeier
Currently reading
The Road - McCarthy
The Complete Poems - Dickinson
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra - Us
>>8105918
PSA: calling something a spook is not an argument
January:
White Noise - Delillo
A Season in Hell - Rimbaud
The American Dream and The Zoo Story - Albee
Chronicles, Vol. I - Dylan
A Freewheelin' Time - Rotolo
Send in the Idiots - Nazeer
Lingo - Dorren
Naming and Necessity - Kripke
February:
The Savage Detectives - Bolaño
Slouching Towards Nirvana - Bukkakowski
On Writing - Borges
Eichmann in Jerusalem - Arendt
The Book - Watts
The Divided Self - Laing
Illness as Metaphor / AIDS and its Metaphors - Sontag
March:
Numero Cero - Eco
The Eden Express - Mark Vonnegut
Young Man Luther - Erikson
Missing Out - Phillips
Escape From Freedom - Fromm
Discipline and Punish - Foucault
April:
The Professor and the Madman - Winchester
Empire of Illusion - Hedges
Living With a Wild God - Ehrenreich
The Undiscovered Self - Jung
The Forgotten Language - Fromm
The Syrian Jihad - Lister
On Killing - Grossman
Etymologicon - Forsyth
Passwords to Paradise - Ostler
This is Not a Pipe - Foucault
May:
The System of Vienna - Jonke
Man's Search for Meaning - Frankl
In a Different Key - Donvan/Zucker
The Book of Woe - Greenberg
The World's Emergency Room - Vanrooyen
Forget Foucault - Baudrillard
Damn, I just realized how little fiction I've read this year. Oh well, there's still time and the unread shelves are still full.
lolita
crying of lot 49
the bell jar
still life with woodpecker
a supposedly fun thing i'll never do again
a visit from the goon squad
twelfth night
dubliners
play it as it lays
jazz
canterbury tales
wolf in white van
virgin suicides
you get so alone at times
more but i don't remember, these are just off the top of my head
>>8105882
>Are you the single dad anon? What have you been reading to them?
No stay at home dad, but http://www.greatillustratedclassics.com/ and library caldecott and newbury winners, as well as illustrated and abridged versions of epics and sagas
>tfw barely read anything the past two months
where did my motivation go
i gotta stop drinking
>>8105906
The Savage Detectives was legit. Most people who dislike 2666 are off-put by the repetitiveness of the Part About the Crimes (a piece of writing I'll defend to the death, but I can understand why people feel differently). If you're in that camp, then The Savage Detectives is for you, especially if you enjoyed the Part About the Critics.
I would actually recommend reading it before 2666, alongside Last Evenings on Earth, though I wish someone told me that two years ago.
>>8106128
Which illustrated editions of the epics and sagas are you using? I'm still trying to find my preferred illustrator for fairy tales. I'm really liking Trina Schart Hyman and Lizbeth Zwerger (and Chihiro Iwasaki) so far.
is there a site that makes the cover collages? or do people just make them manually?
>>8106201
g o r a s
o d e d
>>8106201
Goodreads, Librarything, you could probably do it in Widows Explorer too.
>>8106244
L M A O
M
A
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>>8106244
Christ, what happened in the middle there?
>>8106244
Fucking disgusting furries
>>8106216
i fucking love widows explorer, sometimes i just gotta get deep into dat grief
>>8106244
loled
>>8105652
Brave New World (strongly) and Fahrenheit 451. I'm reading "We" and I've been told that in "Brave New World Revisited" Huxley said that his dystopian future was closed than he had thought when he wrote BNW.
>>8106300
While I like the dystopia of Brave New World, I didn't like the writing at all, and there wasn't a single likeable character in the entire thing. I don't know if that was what Huxley was aiming for, but there wasn't a single moment in the book where I found any quality in a single character. They all annoyed me to being completely annoyed by the book.
>>8104326
I'm a bit of a pleb, I've only recently gotten into literature seriously
Hamlet
King Lear
Twelfth Night
Merchant of Venice
Sense and Sensibility
Age of Innocence
Death of a Salesman
Glengarry Glenn Ross
A Passage to India
As I Lay Dying
Gravity's Rainbow
The Myth of Sisyphus
Of Grammatology
Discipline and Punish
Invisible Man
>>8106179
d'auliares norse sagas, foreman's beowulf, puffin classics king Arthur, black ships before troy, mccaughren gilgamesh stuff like that.
>>8105747
I'd definitely recommend exploring some of his other work first. I felt very under-prepared for it.
The Byrne book is mostly good although I found the sections where he talked about his own experiences making music to be rather repetitive. "We tried this new thing in the studio and it worked and we were happy. Then we tried this other thing and it also worked and we were happy." etc. The best part imo was when he explored how things like architecture and technology affect the music making process.
>>8105511
wew lad, you sure love dick
>>8104326
what jung book is that?
>>8104326
Want to read 70, probably not gonna make it.
Ernest Hemingway- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Steinbeck-Of Mice and Men
John Williams- Stoner
Fitzgerald- The Great Gatsby
Herrmann Hesse- Siddhartha
Herrmann Hesse- Steppenwolf
Kafka- Meditations
Kafka- The Judgement
Joyce- Dubliners
Herbert- Dune
Camus- The Stranger
Dostoyevsky- Notes from Underground
Dostoyevsky- White Nights
J.K. Toole- A Confederacy of Dunces
Nietzsche- Thus Spoke Zarathustta
Nietzsche- The Antichrist
Plato- Apology
Plato- Crito
Frisch- Andorra
Plato- Symposium
Herrmann Hesse- Demian
>>8104326
The Prophet
Invisible Man
